We have about 25 people who work in our main office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As a group we have never done a mock draft, but seeing that everyone and their brother is doing one and this could be a big surprise year, thought we would join in.

PG’s David Rawnsley recently did a mock draft based in having the 15th pick. Our office staff has voted and will list players as though we had every pick and were actually in charge of drafting each player. The only thing we did different is instead of picking the top 32, we picked an all high school draft. So this will be the only mock draft that doesn’t have sure fire first pick Steven Strasberg listed at the top. No Dustin Ackley at the number two pick, no Aaron Crow, Tanner Scheppers, Grant Green, Alex White, Kyle Gibson, Mike Minor, Rex Brothers, Jared Mitchell, Brett Jackson, Andy Oliver, Mike Leake, Eric Arnett, Tim Wheeler, Chad Jenkins, or several other college players that are likely first round picks.

Also, we did not pick our HS mock draft based on things like signability. Our high school only list is based on the top prospects as voted by our office staff and taking it for granted that all the players would sign… Especially for the “imaginary” amount of money that we plan to spend signing them! This mock draft is not based on how we think the draft will actually play out. Too many factors involved to do it that way.

Here it is the first annual PG Office High School Mock Draft.Note: Don’t pay real close attention to the order! We will come back later and explain what actually happened and why. I’m sure we missed a few on the list below. There’s always a surprise or two.

Number one on our list (Matt Purke) will not be the first high school player picked; in fact, he might not even be the first LHP. We just think he is the best pitching prospect in this draft, outside of Steven Strasburg.

Perhaps the biggest surprise is we have Nick Franklin SS from Florida going early. Not sure why that should be considered a big surprise, though. He just doesn’t seem to appear on any mock draft lists.

The top five pitchers as a group might be one of the best in many drafts. In fact, this class of high school pitchers is pretty deep with talent.

Another guy who consistently seems to get overlooked on most mock drafts is Brooks Pounders. This is a guy that we believe will be an outstanding MLB pitcher.

Newcomer to most any list would be lefty Kevin James from Wisconsin. Had he been recognized a bit earlier he would probably be getting a lot more attention.

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